Oatmeal Porridge
Ingredients
Directions
Prepare
Boil 1 quart salted water in a double boiler.
Cook the porridge
Stir in 1 cup oatmeal, then stir hard for a moment.
Let it boil for 2 or 3 hours, stirring occasionally.
Stir until it is smooth before taking it up.
Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures. See the original page.
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What each ingredient does
- Oatmeal (in the method)
- Its starch swells in the hot water and thickens the mixture into porridge.
- Salted water
- Supplies the liquid that hydrates the oats and cooks them until soft.
The step that matters
Stir in the oatmeal and stir hard for a moment. Dry oats clump when they first meet hot water. Vigorous stirring disperses them evenly, so the porridge cooks smooth rather than lumpy.
“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.
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